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The original and best! That's no empty boast - I've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. I have made and sold over 2000 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio.
All my guitars are set up for easy fretted and slide playing - I'm a guitar player, so I understand how a guitar should perform. I source the best components for the price, and carefully craft them into truly gig-worthy instruments, with unparalleled playability and tone.
I build to a quality, not down to a price - wherever possible I use European and North American timbers. I also use European and USA made components such as Van Gent machineheads & fretwire, d'Addario and Newtone strings, Van Damme cable, Neutrik & Switchcraft connectors etc, instead of relying on cheaper "sweatshop economy" parts.
We now have our own range of custom made stainless steel parts featured on some of our guitars - tailpieces, jack sockets and control plates. These are designed by us and manufactured right here in the UK West Midlands.
We ship guitars worldwide, and all our guitars are packed with care, double-boxed in custom made twinwall corrugated card boxes. When ordering a guitar please include a phone number with the delivery information.
CUSTOM ORDERS - We are pleased to announce that we are once again taking orders for custom guitars. If you can't find a guitar that you like on our site, or have seen one of our earlier guitars that you'd like, we can make one for you! We ask for 50% deposit, and delivery time is typically 2-3 months. We can advise on specification and special features, and will give you a fixed price quote, including shipping anywhere worldwide.
Cigar Box Guitars
Sugar Skulls ACOUSTIC 3 String Guitar - Fishman pickup.
£495.00
Bright blue "Sugar Skulls" handpainted "Day of the Dead" graphics by ChickenboneJohn on a bold red big box with silver finish corner protectors and matching 'ace of spades' hardware. Special shaped laminated headstock with Der Jung machineheads. This has been built to give maximum acoustic volume with longitudinally braced top, bridge plate and...
Workshop Series, darkburst finish - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£180.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Dark burst finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and distressed pickguard. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through neck with backstrap through bo...
Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware
Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware
£565.00
6 String cigar box guitar, maple neck and fretboard, aged copper hardware. This guitar is built and set up to play easily - the action at the 12th fret is 1.5mm with d'Addario 10 gauge strings. Fitted with dual action trussrod. The maple neck and fretboard has been given an aged stain and has been hand finished in gunstock oil to a beautiful sat...
Romeo y Julieta, twin pickup deluxe 3 String Cigar Box Guitar incl. case
£785.00
Traditional style "Romeo y Julieta" cigar box with laminated sapele and poplar "wings" for a perfect balance on the strap and ultimate comfort for seated playing. Laminated poplar and sapele through neck, with backstrap reinforcement and beautifully carved heel transition. Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real mother of...
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
£88.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...
Workshop Series - Custom "Love Me Or Die" green crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£290.00
A deep green distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Hoodoo"" design. Derived from our basic workshop guitars, these offer an improved pickup with tone and volume controls, nicer machineheads with a colour coded headstock and block position markers to match the box. These offer gen...
3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box - BACK IN STOCK SOON
£75.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
£88.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...
Flor de las Antillas - Fretless lefty - 3 string cigar box guitar
£110.00
Left Handed. Genuine "Flor de las Antillas" cigar box. A beautiful small box perfect for the shorter scale singlecoil fretless cigar box guitar. Compact single coil pickup, hand carved sapele wood through neck with burnt fret markers and position dots, finished with a hand rubbed gunstock oil and wax coating. Machine screw nut and bridge. These ...
One String Canjo - Diddley Bow
£40.00
Crazily simple instrument..one string, fretless..with a strat pickup! Shaped fretless poplar neck with a simple wax finish, open back machinehead, strat-style electric pickup, Neutrik jack and d'Addario nickelwound steel string. 25 1/2 inch scale. Marked fretmarkers and position dots. Play it with your fingers or a slide, plug it in and and mak...
H.Upmann Fretless - short scale 3 string cigar box guitar
£110.00
Genuine "H.Upmann " cigar box, singlecoil compact pickup. Hand carved one piece sapele through neck with hand rubbed gunstock oil and final wax coat finish. Fretless, with woodburned fret markers and position dots, gunstock oil finished. Machine screw nut and sapele bridge with fretwire saddle. 22 3/4 inch scale Fitted with openback machinehea...
Workshop Series, red crackle "Crossroads"- 3 String Cigar Box Guitar REVIEWED
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Red crackle finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and signwritten graphics. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow poplar through neck, through body reinforcem...